Class Meetings and Notes

This webpage was reconstructed from memory & notes after the course was taught, as Blackboard proved deficient.
Week Tuesday Thursday Reading Chapters Assignments
1 8/28: Vast & Diverse
 8/30: Exploration
 Stewart 1, 2, 6
Tomczak & Godfrey 2 		Assgn. 1 Plans 8/29
2 9/04: Modern Observations
 9/06: S, T, p, Density
 Vallis 1.1-1.3
Siedler et al. 2.1, 3.1-3.3
Emery et al. 6
Sverdrup et al. 10 		Assgn. 1 Due 9/07
3 9/11: Estuarine Budgets (V&S)
 9/13: Estuarine Budgets (T)
 Gill 1, 2
Stewart 5
Emery et al. 5 		Assgn. 1 Review 9/12 Assgn. 2 Plans 9/14
4 9/14: Global Budgets
 9/16: Thermodynamics & Pot'l Density
 Vallis 1 Assgn. 2 Due 9/17
5 9/25: Momentum
 9/27: Momentum & Rotation
 Pedlosky 1, 2 Assgn. 2 Review 9/26 Assgn. 3 Plans 9/28
6 10/02: Taylor-Proudman
 10/04: Turbulence, Friction & Ekman
Cushman-Roisin 5
Stewart 9, 12 		Assgn. 3 Due 10/05
7 10/09: Ekman
 10/11: Geostrophy
 Vallis 2 Assgn. 3 Review 10/10 Assgn. 4 Plans 10/12
8 10/16: Rotating Tank
 10/18: Rotating Tank
 Vallis 2 Assgn. 4 Due 10/19
9 10/23: Sverdrup
 10/25: Munk & Stommel
 Cushman-Roisin 8
 Assgn. 4 Review 10/24 Assgn. 5 Plans 10/26
10 10/30: Inertia & Luyten, Pedlosky, Stommel
 11/01: Thermal Wind from Vorticity
 Assgn. 5 Due 11/02
11 11/06: Boussinesq, Thermal Wind, Margules
 11/08: Isopycnal Layer Models
 Cushman-Roisin 12
 Assgn. 5 Review 11/07 Assgn. 6 Plans 11/09
12 11/11: Bill Large
 11/13: PV & Rossby Adjustment
 Assgn. 6 Due 11/16
13 11/20: Fall Break
 11/22: Fall Break
 Fall Break
14 11/27: Waves: Dispersion, Group & Phase Velocity
 11/29: Gravity, Poincare, and Kelvin Waves
 Cushman-Roisin & Beckers 9 Assgn. 6 Review 11/28 Assgn. 7 Plans 11/30
15 12/04: Markus Jochum
 12/06: Rossby Waves
 Cushman-Roisin & Beckers 9 Assgn. 7 Due 12/07
16 12/11: Baroclinic Waves
 12/13: Summary
 Assgn. 7 Review 12/12

Web Resources and Texts

Robert H. Stewart's Introduction to Physical Oceanography
Web-distributed basic but comprehensive textbook.

Tomczak and Godfrey's Regional Oceanography: An Introduction
Tomczak and Godfrey's nice textbook.

Lynne Talley's SIO 210: Intro to Physical Oceanography
Lynne Talley's nice website for a similar class to ATOC5051.

Ferrari and Joyce's MIT 12.808: Intro to Physical Oceanography
Ferrari and Joyce's nice website for a similar class to ATOC5051.

AGU/GRL Article Length Tool
This is an automated article length calculator for AGU. All assignments for this class must pass the GRL length calculation..

Cushman-Roisin's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Chapters 5, 8, 12.

Cushman-Roisin and Beckers's Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
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Emery, Talley, and Pickard's Descriptive Physical Oceanography
Chapters 5, 6.

Adrian Gill's Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics
Chapters 1, 2, 3.

Joe Pedlosky's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Chapters 1, 2.

Sverdrup, Johnson, and Fleming's The Ocean
Chapter 10.

Siedler, Church & Gould's WOCE Volume,
The Ocean: Circulation and Climate
Chapters 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.

Geoff Vallis's Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4.

Wunsch's The Ocean Inverse Problem
Chapter 2.

Useful websites for matlab and idl.

Image from Siedler et al. 2001.